Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "anthologies"
Writer's Group
October is approaching at breakneck speed or so it seems to me as I frantically try to finish The Pumpkin Project. I'm down to the wire with a half dozen puzzles, solutions, last minute changes and pictures.
The last thing I need is another writing project. My writer's group thinks otherwise. We are starting a second anthology on animals for release next April.
The short story is coming along as the premise is one I worked out before in a project that didn't work. Working on this is a bit of relief making return to The Pumpkin Project possible with a refreshed attitude.
Yet, somehow I am also the one coordinating and gathering all the stories for the anthology, sending them to the editors. I guess I will get the finished ones back later. My email account is starting to get busy.
There is something on the email called folders. I've never used this feature. Perhaps it is time I learned.
Which brings me to the next writer's group project: tech trainings.
I am not that technology savvy as my recent website disaster proves. So how do I end up with this training series? Our group leader has more faith in me than I do I guess.
One thing about these trainings, they are an opportunity. The first one is on basic websites as authors really need one as a base of operations. Already I have a collaborator. Then there is all the research and mistakes I've made along the way to mine. And I get to finally do a powerpoint!
The second one is on creating links. This is something I have long wanted to learn how to do. Now I have incentive to finally learn about them and how to do them.
Maybe these are both opportunities in disguise. I do know Missouri Writers, Ink is a great writer's group for me. And especially new and aspiring authors can use a good group to smooth out some of those road hazards on the way to holding that first book.
The last thing I need is another writing project. My writer's group thinks otherwise. We are starting a second anthology on animals for release next April.
The short story is coming along as the premise is one I worked out before in a project that didn't work. Working on this is a bit of relief making return to The Pumpkin Project possible with a refreshed attitude.
Yet, somehow I am also the one coordinating and gathering all the stories for the anthology, sending them to the editors. I guess I will get the finished ones back later. My email account is starting to get busy.
There is something on the email called folders. I've never used this feature. Perhaps it is time I learned.
Which brings me to the next writer's group project: tech trainings.
I am not that technology savvy as my recent website disaster proves. So how do I end up with this training series? Our group leader has more faith in me than I do I guess.
One thing about these trainings, they are an opportunity. The first one is on basic websites as authors really need one as a base of operations. Already I have a collaborator. Then there is all the research and mistakes I've made along the way to mine. And I get to finally do a powerpoint!
The second one is on creating links. This is something I have long wanted to learn how to do. Now I have incentive to finally learn about them and how to do them.
Maybe these are both opportunities in disguise. I do know Missouri Writers, Ink is a great writer's group for me. And especially new and aspiring authors can use a good group to smooth out some of those road hazards on the way to holding that first book.
